Title :
Mode-locking of long cavity Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser at millimetre wave frequencies by subharmonic optical injection
Author :
Wen, Yang Jing ; Novak, D. ; Liu, Hai Feng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia
fDate :
5/11/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A long cavity Fabry-Perot laser has been forced into pulsed operation with a repetition rate equal to its cavity resonant frequency (32.8GHz), by injecting short optical pulses at the fourth subharmonic (8.2 GHz). Pulse trains generated using this technique exhibit a high subharmonic suppression ratio (>17 dB), wide locking range (>500 MHz) and low levels of jitter (<0.4 ps)
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; 32.8 GHz; 8.2 GHz; long-cavity Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser; millimetre-wave frequency; mode locking; pulsed operation; repetition rate; subharmonic optical injection; ultrashort optical pulse generation;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20000681
